Legal Opinion
People v. Richards
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided February 27, 1979PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
— Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County, rendered January 11, 1978, convicting defendant of assault in the second degree, and sentencing him thereupon to a term of three and one-half to seven years, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded for a new trial. Defendant was charged with two counts of assault and a related charge of possession of a dangerous weapon, as a misdemeanor. The charges arose out of a Riker’s Island incident in which defendant, an inmate, allegedly struck a correction officer attempting to restrain him from leaving his cell without authorization.…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Herring v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- People v. SkinnerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1977
- People v. RamosAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1977
- People v. MandrachioAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1978
3Cited by15 opinions
- Cyril Edwards v. E.W. Jones, Superintendent, Great Meadows Correctional Facility and Robert Abrams, Attorney General of the State of New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1983
- People v. ArnottAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1988
- People v. DewindtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1989
- People v. BacalocostantisAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1985
- People v. NegronAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1979
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